Best known for his day-glo color-saturated paintings of dogs and cats, Ron Burns is also deftly talented at creating nature landscapes and intriguing abstracts. Painting in the tranquility of Arizona gives Ron a break from his hectic L.A.-based graphic design company. After using his own pets as models, he now paints shelter pets, returning a percentage of proceeds back to the shelters. Burns is now artist-in-residence with The Humane Society of the United States.